My maternal G/fathers brother was HG Pitchford who was born in 1885 in shropshire UK went to the states in 1913 returned 1914 joined the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment serving in India and elswhere before marrying and returnong to the states in 1922. The only other personal contact wasa post card undated from "The Evergreens" retirement home at Moorstown in Pensylvania. I have a suspician he died in 1963.

I believe his wife was called Ida M. [nee] Rhodes who he married in 1914 in UK